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(Model) J. O. HYDE. Buckle Loop.

No. 236,436. I Patented Jan. 11,1881.

N PEI'ERS, PHOTO-UTNOGRAPMER, WASHINGTON. P. C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES C. HYDE, OF WEST HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE WEST HAVEN BUCKLE COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

BUCKLE-LOOP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 236,436, dated January 11, 1881.

Application filed October 15, 1880.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES C. HYDE, of West Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvementin Buckle-Loops; and 1 do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying, drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which to said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in

Figure 1, a perspective view; Fig. 2, a vertical section, enlarged; Fig. 3, a longitudinal section of the blank; Fig. 4, a face View modified.

This invention relates to an improvement in the loop by which suspender-ends are attached to the buckle and such as are adapted to the use of ends made from a round material, as cord.

In some constructions a pulley has been introduced or connected with the loop, so that the cord would work over it, the pulley serving as an anti-friction device. Thisis the best construction for the purpose up to this time;

but a serious difficulty exists, first, in the additional cost of manufacture required in making and attaching the pulley; second, the wear which naturally comes upon the axis of the pulley, which, being of soft material, soon wears to such an extent as to make the loop useless.

The object of this invention is to retain the peculiar shape of the pulley and avoid the wear; and it consists in the construction as hereinafter described, and particularly recited in the claim.

A is a wire or other loop by which to at tach the device to the buckle, and is of the usual form. From a strip of sheet metal a blank, B, is cut of suflicient length when doubled through the loop A to form the support for the suspendcrend, and substantially the usual length where a pulley is employed. Near each end, and equidistant from the center, a depression, a, is made, (see.Fig. 3,) contracting toward the bottom of the depression, and preferably so that the sides are curved in a convex shape, giving to the opposite side a concave-shaped projection, as at b, the bottom flat. Centrally in one of the depressions a perforation is made, and the metal drawn out to form a tube, d, (see Fig. 3,) and in the other a perforation, e, is made, corresponding (Model.)

in diameter to the external diameter of the 5 tube d. This piece is then doubled at the center to form a sleeve or hinge,j', on the straight bar of the loop A. Thence the sides are spread to about the point where the curve in the depression commences, then turned inward to bring the two sides parallel, as seen in Fig. 2, and so that the tube (1 in the one depression will pass through the perforation c in the other. The end of the tube then turned over upon the outside or within the depression, as at h, Fig. 2, and in like manner as an eyelet is turned, firmly secures the two parts together and gives to the connection between the two sides the shape of the usually-grooved pulley, and over which, through the space above, the suspender-end will play nearly as well as over a pert'ectly-constructed pulley, and much better than over the pulley after a little wear.

While it is preferred to make the tube d as 75 a part of the blank, the perforations may be alike in both depressions and secured together by an eyelet or rivet.

By this construction a cheap and durable loop is produced, having substantially all the advantages of a pulley, and without its disadvantages. with the same general appearance, and at much less cost.

\Vhile I prefer to hinge the support to the loop A, the loop may be made as a permanent part of the support by simply making the plate longer and cutting slits through the plate each side of but near the center, as seen in Fig. 4, so thatyvhen doubled on the central line the two slots will form the means by which to attach the loop to the buckle.

I claim-- The herein -described buckle-loop, consisting of a strip of metal having depressions a formed near each end to produce a corresponding projection upon opposite sides, and equidistant from the center, doubled at the center, so as to bring the two projections into line with each other and leave a space above, and the said two projections secured together form a pulley-like bearing for the suspender-end introduced through said space above, substantially as described.

JAMES C. HYDE.

Witnesses:

DONALDSON S. THOMPSON, WALTER A. MAIN. 

